Word: deccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they both will be around for quite a while. Columbia and Victor each proclaim that its record is the best ever conceived by man. Meanwhile, smaller record companies are making their choice. Capital has joined Victor; and Mercury, Cetra, and Concert Hall have gone along with Columbia. Decca, a key company, has decided to stand by for the present and watch its competitors slug...
Almost overnight, with Victor, Columbia, Capitol and Decca waxing it fast, "A" You're Adorable ("B" you're so beautiful, "C" you're a cutie . . .*) was a case of "H" you're a hit. In two weeks, Como's dreamy, dulcet disking (Victor) alone has sold a quarter of a million records. Says Businessman Buddy: "The other two guys just can't get over...
Died. Jack Kapp, 47, president and founder (1934) of Decca Records, Inc.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Kapp combined a shrewd eye for business (Decca was the first to make 35? records on a large scale) with a sharp ear for talent (he signed Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Al Jolson, the Dorseys), to boom Decca, by 1946, into a $30 million-a-year business...
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, K. 504 (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet conducting; English Decca, 6 sides). Conductor Ansermet, a champion of new music, proves with the great "Prague" symphony that he is also a master of the old. Recording: excellent...
Mozart: Quartet in C Major, K. 465 (the Griller String Quartet; English Decca, 7 sides). Mozart dedicated this quartet (and five others) to Haydn. After hearing them, Haydn said to Mozart's father: "Before God ... I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me . . ." Performance and recording: good...